Projector to computer?

Is there an Art Projector that can be hooked up to a computer?

  • I would like to paint large scale murals on walls, ceilings, the sides of buildings (and also canvas) but I need help finding a projector that can be hooked up to a computer. I only need the projector to give me the outline? or the opaque version? or silhouette? of the image. The reason i would like the projector is to save me time in free hand drawing the correct proportions and perspective and scale and placement etc.... I want the projector to hook up to my computer because i create and adjust a lot of images using photoshop. However, i cannot find such projector unless it also plays movies and comes with audio and unnecessary added features. Does such a projector exist? Any other suggestions that might work instead?

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    Even if there is such a projector, I imagine it would be hard to use it, because while you're up on a ladder drawing the image, the wind/ a squirrel /a robber could knock over your computer. Also the sunlight would make it hard to project images. So, I would suggest a grid. I imagine you could print out your computer image on paper, then enlarge onto your wall with a grid? I am a low tech person, so that's what I would do.

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Yes there are projectors you can connect to computers but as far as I know they all have audio features as well. Those projectors are used to make presentations at business meetings and the good ones are quite expensive. There are companies that rent those for businesses and conventions. The low tech way to do that is the very old tried and true method of enlarging an image using a grid system. Look it up. That was the way images were transferred by the ancient Egyptians. I think Photoshop has a grid generator.

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